• Team Little Rock Members Deploy

    Approximately 150 Airmen from Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. deployed to Southwest Asia Sept. 8, 2013.At any given time these Airmen specialize in combat airlift and expeditionary support while deployed down range. "This is my first time deploying," said Airman 1st Class Corderro Sweeney, a 50th

  • Airman with the Right Stuff wins award

    Staff Sgt. Juan Roman, a 19th Contracting Squadron contracting specialist, won the fiscal year 2012 AQC Annual Contracting and Right Stuff Award.Roman led a seven member team to a $10 million end of fiscal year, with 70 percent of his team having less than two years experience. The team went on to

  • 152nd Airlift Wing hosts interfly operations

    The highest point in Nevada is 13,147 feet. The highest in Arkansas is 2,753. Airmen from the Natural State recently visited here for an interfly to help accustom them and their C-130J aircraft to the steep mountains, high altitude and high desert that's so similar to Afghanistan. Throughout

  • CSAF addresses AF issues, surveys tornado damage at Little Rock

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz visited here May 4 and 5 to meet with Airmen during an all call and base tour.During the all call, General Schwartz discussed several issues, including recent force management actions by the Air Force, the repeal of the law commonly known as Don't

  • Team Little Rock Airmen weather storm, ready for deployment

    Airmen and aircraft from the 50th Airlift Squadron "Red Devils" left for deployment to Southwest Asia April 28, 2011. This group is the first of nearly 20 C-130 aircraft and 1,000 Airmen slated to leave for deployments in the next week.This is the first deployment of Airmen and aircraft from Little

  • Deployed maintainers keep aircraft aloft in Iraq

    Touted by some as the most versatile aircraft in the Air Force's inventory, the C-130 Hercules can practically do it all. From troop transport, cargo airlift and airdrop to electronic surveillance and aerial attack, this four-turboprop engine airframe is robust, but without the support of aircraft